November 2010
14 posts
“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be...”
– Wed 03 Jan 2007 : Witnessing, iq.org, Julian Assange’s old blog.
“The first air-breathing fish and amphibians extracted oxygen using gills when in...”
– the top ten daily consequences of having evolved.
“The rise of the web was a rare instance when we learned new, positive...”
– Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget.
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immediate and continuous communion with unseen and... →
Most recently, a kooky Belfast fillmmaker got millions of people excited that there was a time traveler in the video extra of a Charlie Chaplin movie. Two professors at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne have been exploring this whole phenomenon, what they (half-ironically?) call The Secret Gestural Prehistory of Mobile Devices. Lisa Gye and Darren Tofts have gone back through old...
phantom kangaroo →
“There is a verifiable population of kangaroos living in the wild in the township of Émancé, about an hour outside of Paris.[4] The kangaroos are descended from a breeding population which escaped during a botched burglary attempt at an animal park in the 1970s.”
(from readmorewikipedia.)
excerpt from david foster wallace’s...
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In information theory, entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable. The term by itself in this context usually refers to the Shannon entropy, which quantifies, in terms of an expected value, the information contained in a message, usually in units such as bits.
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In information theory, entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random...
